Clothes-pounder.



PATENTED JUNE 9, 1903 N. B. BACON.

CLOTHES POUNDER.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 19, 1002.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented June 9, 1903.

PATENT OEEIcE.

NATHAN BIDWELL BACON, OF MANCHESTER, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN E. DOHERTY, OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

CLOTHES-POUNDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 730,811, dated June 9, 1903.

Application filed September 19, 1902. Serial No. 124,079. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHAN BIDWELL BA- CON, of the city of Manchester, county of Chesterfield, and State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Founders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

This invention relates to improvements in clothes-pounders for washing-machines operated by power or otherwise.

The invention essentially aims to provide a device of extreme simplicity of structure and to thereby cheapen the cost of production, as well as efiectually accomplish the work desired.

Further, it is contemplated by this invention that the article be of great durability, as well as general efficiency.

For a full description of the invention and The merits thereof and also to acquirea kn owledge of the details of construction of the means for efiecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and drawings hereto attached.

While the essential and characteristic features of the invention are susceptible of modification, still the preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the pounder. Fig. 3 is a view, parts beingbroken away, showing the exact disposal of the communicating passages. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the device, the handle being broken away.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The body of the pounder comprises the part 1, which consists of an approximately rectangular block. wood or other suitable material, the former being commonly employed, however. A vertical opening 2 is centrally located in the body of the pounder and is adapted to receive a This block or body 1 may be of handle 3 of ordinary form, said handle being secured in this opening by any means suitable for the purpose. Corresponding sets of lateral openings or passages 4E extend through the body of the pounder from opposite sides thereof. The openings of each set are disposed in parallel relation, and being in the same plane the openings of the two sets intersect each other at various points, as shown.

most clearly in Fig. 3 of the drawings. Vertical openings 5 are also formed in the body 1, which extend from the under side of same upward to the points of intersection of the lateral openings 4, communicating therewith. It will be understood that the number ofvertical openings 5 will depend upon the number of intersecting lateral openings.

In the operation of the device the above-described structure is greatly advantageous in that little efiort is required to be expended by the operator in working of the pounder. Besides a minimum expenditure of operative power for operation little or no damage is done the clothes by friction or otherwise, and cleansing is very expeditiously effected. The downward stroke of the pounder causes the water to ascend through the vertical openings 5. Owing to the fact that these openings communicate with the lateral openings 4 at the point of intersection of same, the water passes out and is received by-four different passages, and thus the resistance to the downward movement of the pounder is greatly lessened, and in the same ratio is the necessary operative force decreased.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is-- As an article of manufacture, a clothes pounder comprising a rectangular body having a central opening to receive a handle, a plurality of lateral openings extending entirely through said body from opposite sides thereof and arranged in parallel relation to each other, a second plurality of lateral openings extending from corresponding opposite sides of the body and in parallel relation and disposed in the same plane as the first-mentioned openings intersecting same at difierent points, and vertical openings extending two subscribing witnesses, this 18th day of from the under side of the body of the pounder- September, 1902.

and leading into the lateral openings at the points of intersection thereof, substantially NATHAN BIDWELL BACON 5 as set forth. Witnesses:

In testimony whereof I have signed my JOHN E. DOHERTY,

name to this specification, in the presence of DOUGLAS BAIRD. 

